Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sustained grilling which the prisoner underwent apparently failed to shake his story, as he steadfastly denied all charges. Colonel Apted, queried shortly before midnight, refused to commit himself, stating only in his brief but forceful manner, "I'll deny anything you print, and I've got four witnesses here listening to this phone conversation...
...good Chief Justice is dead. Now they've buried him with military honors--the man who played a brief, romantic part in the Civil War, then dedicated his life to those phases of civilization most directly opposed to all things military...
After a second brief service at the Cathedral and a reception by New York's Catholic Club, Cardinal MacRory embarked once more, waving a scarlet handkerchief from the deck of the Saturnia, which flew the yellow-&-white Papal flag in his honor. To the Holy Father in Rome, said he, "I will give . . . a report that will gladden his heart...
UNROLLING THE MAP-Leonard Outhwaite-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3.75)- Brief history of exploration (2750 B.C.-1935 A.D.), graphically illustrated with 56 maps...
...BRIEF THE YEARS-Natalie Sokoloff -Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Adventures of a girl who was in wide circulation among the Bolsheviks...